#ai
# [[Epistemic status]]
#shower-thought #to-digest
# Related
[[Monkey Brain]]
# TODOs
# Goal
>Finally, an intelligent machine must have goals and motivations. Human goals and motivations are complex. Some are driven by our genes, such as the desire for sex, food, and shelter.
>~ [[Jeff Hawkins]]
>To endow a machine with goals and motivations requires that we design specific mechanisms for goals and motivations and then embed them into the embodiment of the machine. **The goals could be fixed**, like our genetically determined desire to eat, **or they could be learned**, like our societally determined goals for how to live a good life.
>~ [[Jeff Hawkins]]
I suppose the only reliable strategies to implement [[Personal growth/Goal|goal]]s in machines yet are based on [[Software 2.0|Software 1.0]], we don't have a way to give a general purpose direction for the machine to aim at, it would rely on narrow rules.
The closest we have is [[Reinforcement Learning]], where the goal is learned through hard-coded reward function, so in the end isn't it fixed?
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